Have tried using Ulead's encoder with poor results, so I sampled Nero for awhile (until the 30 days ran out) and was quite happy with it. So, now I hear how great TMPGEnc is, so i'm giving it the 30 day trial.

I followed the tutorial here to the letter and i am getting a blur after compressing from .AVI to MPEG2. On the .avi & NERO MPEG2 version I do not get the blur. Numbers on the side of an object ie:race car, moving at 30 - 40MPH blur on the ULEAD & TMPGENc encoded MPGEG2 files, but on the .avi file & Nero MPEG2 they look fine. any ideas. The quality issue has been consuming days of my time since the nero encoder trial period ran out. There was only a small quality loss to the Nero version but the blur with the TMPGEnc MPEG2 is horrible.

Since i'm fairly new to this & have heard nothing but great things about TMPGenc encoding, and less than positive things about Nero, i must be missing something.

HELP!

If you use the project wizard, step through to 'other settings' select it and click on the 'Video' tab.
Use the 'rate control' setting to find one that gives the best quality.

Maybe something here too: http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html

This was an amazing help & it did improve the quailty of the video as a whole, but even with the bit rates cranked up and following the tutorial the blur of the numbers/letters still happens with high speed objects at close range. This is not evident on the .avi files it only happens when it is compressed to MPEG2. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave

The trial of ConvertXtoDVD will leave a watermark in your video but the quality is very good and TMPGEnc was incredibly slow, specially on 2 pass. The prior version of ConvertxtoDVD may be suitable: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_...xtodvd_free.cfm or I hear good things about DVD Flick: http://beginwithsoftware.com/videoguides/dvd-flick-guide.html

HMMM, I have recreated the clip again and i notice in Ulead that when i change the file format from anything other then DV-1 (the orginal capture mode) the blurr seems to occurr. The orginal files are around 3600 KBPS, when i create an uncompressed video file it ups it to 30000 KBPS. Could the issue be with the Ulead program & not with the Tsunami encoder???? Is this the issue of compressing/uncomressing/ recompressing that I have heard of???


Thanks,

Dave

It almost sounds like an interlace problem. Sometimes a vid which looks bad on your monitor may look fine when converted to DVD and played (the TV handles the interlacing) or try again and de-interlace your source on the encode.

Run your source through GSpot for clues.

Can you post a small sample of the original and the bad result?

Tried burning it and the blur is still there. The numbers on the object are white and the background is red. Objects of other colors and the same speed & proximity do not blur.

Dave